Plug & Play places : lifeworlds of multilocal creative knowledge workers /

Plug and Play Places brings forth the idea that places have to be understood as individual items, which are configured and then plugged into the 'system' of the own lifeworld. They can be 'played' without great effort once an individual needs to make use of them. This new type of...

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Main Author:	Nadler, Robert (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Warsaw [Poland] ; Berlin [Germany] : De Gruyter Open, 2014.
Subjects:	Labor mobility. Cultural industries. Main-d'œuvre > Mobilité. Industries culturelles. SOCIAL SCIENCE > General. Cultural industries Labor mobility Multilocality, Mobility Studies, Creative Industries, Place attachment, Social phenomenology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	Plug and Play Places brings forth the idea that places have to be understood as individual items, which are configured and then plugged into the 'system' of the own lifeworld. They can be 'played' without great effort once an individual needs to make use of them. This new type of place attachment is a form of subjective standardization of place, which complements the well-known models of objective standardization of places.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (436 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9783110401745 3110401746 3110401738 9783110401738